Carton



March 7, 1950 s. ROTTMAN 2,499,780

CARTON Original Filed Dec. 1, 1942 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 1'rokusvs March 7, 1950 e. ROTTMAN 2,499,780

canon Original Filed Dec. 1, 1942 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 A7108 NEW I Patented Mar. 7, i950 UNITED mm PATENT, orrlca CARTON George Rottnian, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Original application December 1, 1942, Serial No.

467,488. Divided and this application Septemher 5, 1945, Serial No. 614,448

, 1 Claim. (01. 229-41) My invention relates to new and improved cartons which can be used for holding hats and other articles of clothing, in order to protect the same from dust, moths and the like. The principal object of my invention is to provide cartons which can be simply manufactured and assembled from a plurality of blanks.

,One of these blanks may comprise the cover of a carton.

Another object of my invention is to provide improved forms for hats, to be used in said cartons Fig. 3' is a perspective view of the assembled and closed carton and cover.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4--4 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is-an elevation showing one form of the hat-holder, separated from the carton.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view which illustrates the partial folding of the blank which is used for making the body of the carton.

Fig. 7 is a sectional view of another embodiment of the cover, partially inelevation, taken through the vertical axis of the body and cover, and showing the dust-proof closure between the body of the carton and the cover thereof.

Fig. 8 is a partial view of another embodiment.

V This is generally similar to Fig. 7, but it shows difierent means for holding the upstanding walls of the body of the carton in upstanding position. Fig. 9 is a partial perspective interior view of theimproved cover.

The body blank which is shown in Fig. 1 has a. bottom wall I which can be of anyv suitable polygonal shape. In this embodiment, said bottom wall I is octagonal. Thev blank is made of any suitable bendable material, such as heavy bendable paper or the like. Said blank is provided with eight wall portions 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, l, 8, and I, each ofwhich is of rectangular shape. These wall portions form the upstanding walls of the assembled body of the carton. The alternate wall portions 3, 5,1, and 9 are respectively Wvided with identical extensions la, in, la,-

z and 9a. Each of said extensions is provided with recesses I 0, which are equally downwardly inclined to the vertical axis of the assembled body of the carton. The lines C indicate fold lines or crease lines. There are four crease lines C in the fiat bottom wall I, so that said bottom wall can be folded into a very small space. A pair of pleats P are provided between each pair of successive upstanding walls. As shown in Fig. 6, said pleats P are inwardly folded when the body of the carton is -set up or assembled, so that in the assembled body of the carton, said pleats are located inwardly of the respective upstanding walls.

When the upstanding walls have thus been bent to their respective assembled positions, the respective extensions 3a, 9a, 1a 'and 5a are bent downwardly along their respective fold lines C. Each pair of adjacent triangular pleats P is interlocked with the respective extension by means turned to the locking position shown in'Fig. 8,-

after the respective pleats P have been interlocked with the respective slots l0, thuslocking the pleats P even more securely in position.

The studs 9 can be fixed to their respective extensions. I The rigid cover of the carton has an outer vertical wall l5, which fits over the body. One of the walls of the cover has a flexible tab Ii connected thereto. One end of said tab is inserted through a slit in the wall 4, and said end is then fixed to the corresponding wall of the cover. Said tab l6 has wings lBa. Said tab [6 fits slidably in the slot of .the wall 4, so that said tab i6 is a flexible and slidable hinge member. The wings lia prevent thetab from being pulled out of the slot of wall 4. In the embodiment of Figs. 14, the top of the cover has four stiflening inserts, which include the inserts 40 and 42. said inserts are fixed to the top wall of the cover by rivet fastener 43. The insert 40 fits snugly against the top portions of the upstanding walls of the body in order to provide a 3 dust-proof closure. In the embodiment of Fis. 7, the cover is provided with an insert which has vertical inner walls I]. As shown in Fig. 7, these vertical inner walls II are made by bending-the edge portions of the insert ll, which is fixed to the top wall of the cover by means ofrivet fasteners II. There is a central rivet fastener 20 which also fixes additional stiffening layers II, 22, and :3. The fasteners II also pass through the stiffening layer 21. The two-layer inner walls ll provide an inner dust-proof closure, in addition to the dust-proof closure of the outer vertical walls of the cover.

An insert is provided in the body of the box which is shown in Figs. 1-8, if said box is to be used as a hat-holder. This insert consists of a cylindrical or elliptical body 24 which has a flange 25, which fits fairly snugly against the inner faces of the upstanding walls. The body 24 is provided with outwardly bent integraltabs 20,

- to which the flange 25 is connected. The upper edge of the body 24 has a covering ring 21 of U- shaped cross-section. Said ring 21 has a covering of felt or other soft or resilient material, both inside and outside. The position of the hat H is shown in broken lines in Fig. 4.

I have disclosed several of the embodiments of my invention, but it is clear that numerous 4 tions having outer fiaps which are inwardly bendabl relative to said alternate upstanding-wall portions, each said fiap having laterally opposed notches, said blank being bendable into carton form in which each upstanding-wall portion has a pleat located inwardly thereof at each upstanding edge of eachsaid upstanding wall portion,

' layer, the edges of said outer layer being adapted changes and omissions can be made without desaid upstanding wall portion being integral with said bottom-wall portion at a respective edge of said bottom-wall portion, each pair of upstanding-wall portions being separated by a pair of pleat-portions, alternate upstanding-wall porfiat and bendable carton to be bent downward to form an integral flange fitting snugly against the outer surface of the side walls of said box, the edges of said inner layer being adapted to be bent downward to form an integral flange fitting snugly against the inner side walls of said box.

- GEORGE RO'I'IMAN.

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